Grand Theft Auto IV Walkthrough & Strategy Guide

In New York City, Dukes would be Queens, but in Liberty City, Dukes is Dukes, one of the first two boroughs you're able to access in the game. Just like its real life counterpart, Dukes is attached to Broker (Brooklyn) making them the only two boroughs attached by land, though one major piece to the geographic puzzle is missing in GTAIV—Long Island attached to the associated boroughs on the east. Regardless of that rather large hole, there's a lot of consistency in how Dukes is presented. Just like its real life counterpart, Dukes is a mixture of suburbia and a more urban element, and there's lots to see and do.

Dukes features two hospitals, two police stations and a firehouse, but perhaps its most important feature is the Francis International Airport, which dominates the eastern segment of the island Dukes shares with Broker. Dukes Boulevard, which is the biggest road in the borough, provides massive straight-aways and is a major artery of the borough, allowing you to get virtually anywhere. As it travels north to south and east to west, it also surrounds the major environmentally sound haven in Dukes, Meadows Park. Meadows Park doesn't only have a whole lot of grass. It also holds two tourist traps—the Monoglobe (a shout out to the real life Unisphere) and the Liberty State Pavilion Towers.

As for entertainment and leisure, Dukes has plenty to do. You can play darts and get drunk at the Steinway Beer Garden off of Yorktown Avenue on the western side of the borough, while you can satiate your hunger at both a Cluckin' Bell and a Burger Shot. Dukes plays an extremely important role early in the game, since you can only explore Broker and Dukes initially. It also serves as a major conduit between Broker and Bohan, and has three bridges stemming off of it leading to Colony Island and Charge Island (which both end up in Algonquin), as well as the Dukes Bay Bridge, which leads to Bohan. It's a sort of central connection between several boroughs in Liberty City and you will find yourself traversing it often in the game's early going.